July 29, 2011

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I wrote recently that Michele Bachmann will find it hard to move past the issues of gay rights that used to be central to her political identity and which, unfortunately for her, are now much in the news and the national conversation.

Pelosi told The Advocate of Bachmann’s silence on the issue, “I would think that if she wanted to be the President of the United States, she would understand that this is a larger issue than whether someone is gay or not, but as to whether someone is harassed and bullied to the point of seeing no way out.”

“Obviously it’s an issue bigger than Michele Bachmann’s district, so maybe we should all be speaking out about it, and not just leaving it to her,” Pelosi added.

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If Pelosi is attacking you, then you are probably doing something right. Bachmann seems to have taken the brunt of all baseless attacks. I have not seen anyone questions Obama on why suicide is up nationally. Just sayin. How is teen suicide have anything to do with a congresswoman. That is rediculous.

Bachmann is not responsible for bullying in her district. But what kind of human being argues that bullying is an issue of freedom of speech/freedom of expression and a mark of masculinity?

"There have always been bullies, always have been, always will be. I just don’t know how we’re ever going to get to point of zero tolerance and what does it mean? … Will it get to the point where we are completely stifling free speech and expression? Will it mean that what form of behavior will there be – will we be expecting boys to be girls"

Posted By: Bachmann is not responsible for bullying in her district. But what kind of human being argue | July 29, 2011 at 12:27 PM

Glad someone is calling out the homophobic Bachmann on her idiotic beliefs. Bachmann and her husband do nothing but add to the climate of hate and intolerance that translates into horrible suicides. I hope more people pile on and expose her for the disgusting person she is.

Wow, whodathought! And JourNOlister and Democrat Socialist Party advocate Ben Smith trots out a bimbo like Nancy Pelosi, the absolute dumbest broad ever elected with zero credibility, to try to slime an honorable and smart woman like Michele Bachmann. Nancy Pelosi proved that she was the dumbest twit in congress when she went on National TV and told people that "they (the House Of Representatives) had to pass the bill, to find out what was in it". This was probably the dumbest, most rediculous statement that was ever made by a leader of the House in the history of the USA.

Yeah, you right wing idiots...you heard me correctly: I said "Pelosi said it Perfectly." The issue couldn't have been framed any better than the way the former speaker put it: plain and simple. Michele Bachmann is a small-minded opportunist who likes to start fights but not finish 'em. She and her misguided "professional" husband of hers are totally stupid to think they have any chance of occupying the White House, and Pelosi put it perfectly: "...it's an issue bigger than Michele Bachmann's district..." Those simple-minded individuals who keep voting this small-minded woman into elected office are stuck in a bullying-mentality founded upon fear...fear of their own children who happen to be "different". How wicked, how absolutely wicked and evil to be standing back while her constituents get away with bullying and harassing their own community's children to the point of having no way out but suicide. These so-called Christians are going to hell for their sins. Yeah, you backward bunch of idiots in her district...I said it. You're idiots to treat your sons and daughters with such hatred and contempt. Michele Bachmann and her wicked husband should be run out of town for their stupidity.

Ben Smith will have to move past his creepy obsession with Michele Bachmann. Smith's laughable hit piece was was the most bizarre one yet the ongoing anti-Bachmann jihad. Bachmann had as much to do with teen suicides as did Harmon or Pelosi. Bachmann is not plagued by fabricated connections and metaphors by Team Obama media jackals like Ben Smith. Just look at the polls. One wonders where Politico finds these cut-and-paste "journolists" masquerading a reporters. The ad hominem attacks against Bachmann by the media jackals have boomeranged against the Left and hugely helped Bachmann.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/how-attacking-michele-bachmann-is-making-her-stronger/2011/07/27/gIQAWdz4cI_blog.html
Whenever the press attacks Bachmann, she "gets a flood of support and money. She becomes ‘Every Woman,’ a misunderstood Tea Party mother of five facing down an elitist, arrogant, Obama-leaning press corps." The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
Public Policy Polling 7/28/11 New Jersey: Romney22%; Bachmann at 21%. North Carolina: Romney nn 23%; Bachmann 22%

Ben Smith will have to move past his creepy obsession with Michele Bachmann. Smith's laughable hit piece was was the most bizarre one yet the ongoing anti-Bachmann jihad. Bachmann had as much to do with teen suicides as did Smith or Pelosi, for that matter. Bachmann is not affected by fabricated connections and metaphors by Team Obama media jackals like Ben Smith. Just look at the polls. One wonders where Politico finds these cut-and-paste "journolists" masquerading a reporters. The ad hominem attacks against Bachmann by the media jackals have boomeranged against the Left and hugely helped Bachmann.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/how-attacking-michele-bachmann-is-making-her-stronger/2011/07/27/gIQAWdz4cI_blog.html
Whenever the press attacks Bachmann, she "gets a flood of support and money. She becomes ‘Every Woman,’ a misunderstood Tea Party mother of five facing down an elitist, arrogant, Obama-leaning press corps." The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
7/19/11 The Public Policy Polling national poll:Bachmann 21%; Mitt Romney 20%

"At some point we all have to ask ourselves if the world is a better place because we existed. Did we make it better? Or did we cause more suffering and pain? I wonder how Bachmann would answer this."
By taking in a nother foster child.

There's already enough evidence to show that Michele Bachmann and her so-called "professional" husband whose practices teeter upon a dark-ages viewpoint...her cowardly withdrawal of membership from a church that profits in labeling others as "evil," the anti-Christ... her "opportunistic" moment of backing out of that right-wing Lutheran church she has long been a member of... her refusal to address the suicides of the children in her district... all of this, and surely much more (her opportunistic practice of taking tax-payer funded grants and subsidies... this, and more, is enough evidence to disqualify her for ANY office whatsoever. Her husband's license should be rescinded, she should be recalled by her district, and the media should from this point forward ignore this self-centered woman who voices a scripted narrative completely out-of-touch with mainstream America. Too bad her own constituents have been suckered in by this "Christian."

Pelosi calling out anyone on the subject of bullying is like Rosie O'Donnell telling you that you need to lose weight. It's like getting marital advice from Ike Turner. It's like having Paris Hilton lecture you on the subject of premarital chastity. Good lord!

OBONGO....Leading from BEHIND!!Scarborough: Dems Say Privately Obama Is Invisible, Not A Leader.......Joe Scarborough: "I have got to clear this up. Mika heard two days ago on Capitol Hill Democrats all saying the same thing. And that is, this president has been invisible, he is not a leader. They said this all behind closed doors. Democratic leaders, Democratic rank-and-file. In fact, 40, 50 of the most powerful Democrats on the Hill. I will just stop right there. The complaints were all the same. The president has vanished. He has left us here alone again like he did with health care. Where is he? Now, they didn't call him a loser, but they sure as hell didn't call him a leader."

Leading from behind means you sit back while all the losers fight it out...like they're doing now...then swoop in at the last minute and set the ship right. Obama is the only one in the room with a brain to get this.

Posted By: Leading from behind means you sit back while all the losers fight it out...like they're doing now... | July 29, 2011 at 03:14 PM

Yes, 3:14... but anybody with a brain is demagogued by right-wing extremists... They don't want their leaders to be "thinkers" with brains or intelligence... They want radical religious zealots who demonize everybody else by calling them anti-Christ, communists, Marxists. This is how right-wing idiots like to campaign: appeal to the worst instincts in the feeble-minded who will "believe" anything. You know them by the idiotic posts they make to this link...there are several of 'em here.

We find that this issue should, and is, at the top of the Democrats main,core issues as a front-runner issue in their agenda. The country must put aside all other issues until the "code-pinkers" will be able to play "We are the Champions" over loudspeakers in every big city, with naked perverts cavorting all over the streets!. Then, the democrats can get onto those other minor issues like making a budget, and coming up with a bill to straighten out the financial mess we are currently in?.

I think that we(Progs) should just eliminate Christianity, any signs or symbols of morality. Anyone bullying should get life in prison and no chance for parole because it is a "hate crime." Gays should be promoted to principal, because of the long hardships suffered growing up gay, and be first in line for any promotions in school districts across the Country. Senators and Congressman should be forced to be at least 40 % homosexual. Gay pride month shall be declared a National Holiday and a forced observance by all Americans, as all businesses shall also be forced to be closed. Television shows shall be required to have at least 40 % of highly intellectual and upstanding professionals portrayed as homosexual people. Sports teams will also be required to have at least 40% homosexuals on their team. Rainbow flags will be the new symbol of Freedom,Liberty and Justice For all!!. We will be a "role model" Country for all of the World with our new stance on homosexuality, it will be pure utopia!!.

This "bullying" and hateful,vitriolic rhetoric that is coming from leftists along with all of their bigotry and discrimination is becoming a topic that must be identified and pointed out by our mainstream media. They never stop pointing out things that Christians do, like having a simple belief and faith in their Creator who wrote the Bible, but are they allowed to have those freedoms of expression of religion, as given to all of US by our Constitution??. Leftists don't seem to think so, as they appear to only stick up for homosexuals rights, and love to throw around the old "bigoted,discriminatory,hateful" names at conservative Christians, never realizing that those rights also apply to Christians.

Our group has asked Obama to officially declare August 13th,2011 as official "Homophobe Day." There will be parades all over the Country in our largest cities to show our solidarity for "straight pride!!." we have also asked for, and received Obamas permission to officialy declare August as "Homophobe Pride Month!!." celebrations will be held all over the Country.

12:25, 12:27,
Maybe the BIT@@ Bachmann is not responsible for it, but she sure certainly should do something about it, that is if she cares about her district! But then again, repukes rarely CARE about their districts.

Posted By: 12:25, 12:27,
Maybe the BIT@@ Bachmann is not responsible for it, but she sure certainly should do | July 29, 2011 at 06:08 PM

Indeed, bulling is outrageous! but Nancy Polosi has no business advising anyone about their district. She is a failure at every level! Our once Golden State, Not So Much under Polosi- (California is a greater risk than Greece, warns JP Morgan- - Cal has been under one party rule since the 60s, and has paid a huge price! The list of businesses leaving Cal for more business friendly states. Abraxis Health, Alza Corp, American AVK, American Racing,Apple Computer, Audix Corporation, Apria Health care Group, Assurant Inc., Automobile Club of Southern California placed 1,100 jobs in Texas,Barefoot Motors, Beckman Coulter, Bild Industries Inc., Bill Miller Engineering, Ltd., BMC Select, BPI Labs, Buck Knives, CalPortland Cement, CalStar Products Inc., Checks-To-Go, Chivaroli & AssociatesCoreSite, A Carlyle Company, Creators Syndicate may flee L.A. because it operates like a Banana Republic.Creel Printing, Left DaVita Inc, Denny’s Corp., Digital Domain, Ditech, DuPont Fabros Technology, eBay, EDMO Distributors, Inc.,.Edwards Life Sciences, EMRISE Corp, Facebook, FallLine Corporation, Fidelity National Financial, First American Corp., Fluor Corp, Foxconn Electronics, Fox Family moved its farming operations to Cookeville, TN. All employees moved with the firm,Fuel System Solutions Gregg Industries, Helix Wind Inc. Hewlett-Packard, HQ’d , Dunn-Edwards paint products the list has grown this last year! Can you imagine how many jobs have been lost?

No Obama Mama,
Where do you get the idea that Nancy Pelosi is a failure. AND what would you call BONEHEAD Boehner?
BONEHEAD BOEHNER is the failure. WHEN Nancy Pelosi was speaker, she got things done. BONEHEAD BOEHNER has done nothing but suck up to the t-turds.
AND if Nancy Pelosi wants to give someone advice, what is it to you, old woman?

Posted By: No Obama Mama,
Where do you get the idea that Nancy Pelosi is a failure. AND what would you call B | July 29, 2011 at 06:45 PM

Pelosi could turn out to be one of the appointed female hitmen against republican female(s) candidate(s). Every lamestream media outlet will have one of those. Watch it. The males would just "report" what they say.

No Obama Mama, Where do you get the idea that Nancy Pelosi is a failure. AND what would you call BONEHEAD Boehner? BONEHEAD BOEHNER is the failure. WHEN Nancy Pelosi was speaker, she got things done.----------------------@ Where do you get the idea that Nancy Pelosi is a failure---------------- Sharon, do you have any access to newspapers in your area? Are you living in the Appalachian Mountains with no outside resources? Pelosi’s state is a disaster, mainly due to the massive business regulations that she has supported. She also has the dubious honor of ‘the shortest serving speaker in American history’ (well deserved I might add) and…why is Boehner a failure? The S&P has indicated on several occasions that if we don’t cut a substantial amount of spending, our credit rating will go down, regardless of raising the debt ceiling. and Sharon, We know the Democrats could have raised the debt ceiling last year and they chose not to, they were in complete control of presidency, house & senate-

I am not blind, just watch the national media sometime and see the mostly bigoted,discriminatory stories against Christians,Conservatives and Republicans simply for their comments about their Faith and Beliefs. The left is blinded by their intolerance,un-acceptance and non-inclusiveness of Christians so bad that they are delusioned. they don't see it, and are the real intolerant ones. our great Constitution will always stand up for the Rights to Proclaim our faiths and Beliefs in Jesus Christ and our All- Mighty Bible Thank God for The United States of America and May God Bless the United States of America, Amen.

No Obama mama,
Nancy Pelosi is not in charge of your state. She spends time in D.C. unlike bonehead boehner who is gone from D.C. most of the time.
Don't worry your stupid little head about Nancy Pelosi, she will be speaker again soon. BONEHEAD boehner can not get his caucas to get anything done on jobs. All he can do are social issues!
It is time to vote out the idiot freshmen in the house along with the weeper of the house!

Posted By: No Obama mama,
Nancy Pelosi is not in charge of your state. She spends time in D.C. unlike bonehead | July 29, 2011 at 07:55 PM

Where were all of these soft-hearted liberals back in the 70's when there was plenty of bullying to go around??. Only now does this "bullying" become a rally cry of the homosexual activists. This stuff has existed for decades and nobody has given a damn about it. Now, the "progs" realize they can champion this cause into their own rallying cry for the rights of homosexual youth. It's becoming a total joke what all this crap about bullying, hate crimes gay marriage and the whole lot of it.

Realist,
NO, it has nothing to do with gays. It has everything to do with the number of elementary kids that are killing themselves because of bullying. Bullying has never reached to the level that it is today. The 70's was child's play compared to the bullying that is going on today. Plus the fact that we did not have the social venues on the computer like we have today and much of the bullying is carried out there also.

Posted By: Realist,
NO, it has nothing to do with gays. It has everything to do with the number of elementary | July 29, 2011 at 08:09 PM

7:54,
It is all in your mind. I watch the national media all the time and there is nothing against Christians. BUT what about the wicked far right's move against muslims? NOW that is something to be concerned about. The wicked far right do not want to be condemned for their religion, but they do the same thing to muslims.

Posted By: 7:54,
It is all in your mind. I watch the national media all the time and there is nothing agains | July 29, 2011 at 08:12 PM

Michele Bachmann's entire political carreer has been about harrassing and bullying gay people.
Posted By: Ken | July 29, 2011 at 12:58 PM++++++C'mon Ken, lets admit you have a big problem with acceptance in your party- its called the Latin & African american community- Must you always bully religious people and ignore whats been staring you in the face?

Posted By: Michele Bachmann's entire political carreer has been about harrassing and bullying gay people.
Post | July 29, 2011 at 09:07 PM

So Joe walsh, repuke, is not paying child support! He paid his campaign $35,000 to his own campaign to get elected. BUT his kids are without money for their needs because they have a dead beat dad! Joe Walsh should be in jail not in congress!

Posted By: So Joe walsh, repuke, is not paying child support! He paid his campaign $35,000 to his own campaign | July 29, 2011 at 11:06 PM

As the SPAMMER-N-CHIEF tweets like a teenage punk and sends out tweet handles of his political enemies so they can be accosted by UNION PARASITES, we are reminded of AMERICA'S HUGE MISTAKE in electing this IDIOT who has NEVER did ANYTHING in the REAL-WORLD but organize people with IQ's below 80!!!!!

@9:07: I never bully anyone and fully support religious freedom, but religious freedom does not include the right to impose your religious views on everyone else. There is a problem with homophobia in some minority communities, but indications are that we are making progress there too.